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United States Patent | 5,517,606 |
Matheny ,   et al. | May 14, 1996 |
A method and apparatus for an object based notification system. The notification system is designed in a flexible manner to support change notification in an object based operating system.
Inventors: | Matheny; John R. (Mountain View, CA); White; Christopher (Mountain View, CA); Anderson; David R. (Cupertino, CA); Schaeffer; Arnold (Belmont, CA) |
Assignee: | Taligent, Inc. (Cupertino, CA) |
Appl. No.: | 284943 |
Filed: | August 2, 1994 |
Current U.S. Class: | 715/810; 715/835 |
Intern'l Class: | G06F 015/00 |
Field of Search: | 395/155-161,600-650,700 345/117-120,146,902 |
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